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The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.

Stated; prescribed; ritual.

A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] Johnson.

hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. -- Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time w…

evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.

The style described in Gothic, a., 2.

One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

ind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I. (called "the Great") in the 6th century. -- Gregorian modes, the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great, and named after the ancient Greek scales, as Dorian, Lydian, etc. -- Gregorian teles…

used for sawing marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Str…

A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."

procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require. It had the church accurately described to me. Sir W. Scott. Wouldst thou have me turn traitor also Ld. Lytton.

An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schützenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; -- so called, as having been described by Hippocrates. Dunglison. -- Hippocratic oath, an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

Any sound resembling that above described; as:

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

on characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.